Re: [Lms-developers] RE: Lms-developers digest, Vol 1 #18 - 1 msg

[Rich A. <ric...@po...>]

I have a question: does the CMI protocol mandate any client technology? If
not, then it would seem that some gnarly javascript doing http posts and
gets would work in lieu of the applet.  That is a little off topic, but I
did get the chance to bounce the concept of a replacing the ADL RTE adapter
applet with a flash movie (swf) off the MMedia ELearning guru.  He didn't
get it, and on second thought, a Flash based adapter makes it real hard for
SCO's to communicate with it since other things in the browser can't tickle
the movie the way javascript can an applet, right?  On the other hand, it
would be pretty sweet to have Flash endemic support for the CMI protocol if
all of the courseware is indeed authored in flash.

- Rich


----- Original Message -----
From: "bryan hunt" <bry...@os...>
To: <lms...@li...>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Lms-developers] RE: Lms-developers digest, Vol 1 #18 - 1 msg



My comments were regarding the client side communication API
where I'm afraid it is true to say that the specification was written
with Internet Explorer as the only client platform in mind.

The spec has been out for years now, Mozilla 1.3 certainly hasn't
and mozilla 1.3 is the only other browser to support it now.

So I think that my comments may in fact have been correct.

One other point that is certainly worth bearing in mind is that
applications based on client side JavaScript are not exactly
considered the vogue with sucessfull web sites or professional
developers.

Anyhow everyone is using it now so whether it is "dog food"
or not is irelevant as we have to and will eat it.

--B

On Mon 14 Apr 2003 12:33, Björn Weide wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think SCORM is fully platform independent: it just defines content as
web
> content. So if a course doesnt run under Linux, be sure that the SCOs are
> written in valid HTML. Also it is possible that the api-adapter-applet
isnt
> loaded in some browsers. But that has nothing to do with SCORM ;) Did you
> thought about a flash-adapter? It seems to be more useful.
>
> Regards,
> Björn
>
> From: bryan hunt <bry...@os...>
> To: lms...@li...
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:08:24 +0100
> Subject: [Lms-developers] SCORM browser compatability
>
>
> FYI
>
> I have been developing my stuff on a linux box and that has being going
> pretty
> ok for me .... until I got to the part where I get the javascript to talk
> to
>
> the applet.
>
> I have always thought that scorm was a joke of a spec but it's the
> bandwagon
>
> that everyone else has jumped on so I might as well get on for the ride.
>
> Anyhow I can tell you that SCORM does work with linux but only with the
> latest
> version of Mozilla ( Mozilla 1.3 )
>
> It doesn't work with konqueror 3.1 or any earlier version of mozilla, I
> don't
> know if it even worked with Netscape Navigator.
>
> What a fantastic standard eh ? Truly cross platform !
>
> Anyhow I have to upgrade to the latest version of Mandrake to get MOZ 1.3
> so it will be after the weekend before I can check in my stuff.
>
> Here is some things that I am doing
>
> I am now using the swing based applet as the api adaptor .
>
> I have created an Interface called ISCORMApplet which my new applet is
> using
>
> I am using stubs in conjunction with my appletlogger class at present but
> am going to switch to implimentation on Monday.
>
> --B
>
>
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